24" Alum iMac screen resolutions

Is there any way to change the screen resolution to 1600x1000 on the new 24" imacs? There are several other options on the display preferences but not this one. Anything other than the native is too fuzzy and the native 1920x1200 makes everything on the screen to way small to see from a safe distance..and I do wear glasses! It does put a lot of strain in my eyes.I know I can increase the size of the icons and text, but the Adobe pallets and other content is just too small. It shows up on my 23" cinema display with Mac Pro.

oskar10 wrote:
I know it is not crystal clear as native, but it does not look bad at all on my 23" cinema display. Why can't I set my imac to this resolution?
It's more than likely (I could be wrong) monitor based?
Let's use windows for an example. I have 2 monitors, both supporting different resolutions, the graphics card supports dozens of combinations but monitor 1 only supports certain ones, and monitor 2 only supports certain ones.
I plug in monitor 1 on my windows pc (using windows as an example) and I can set to all these widescreen resolutions. I plug in monitor 2 and the only resolutions I get are some widescreen and most of them non-widescreen.
The iMac display may only support certain types which is being detected by the OS and those are the only given options you have.
The cinema display is recognized as supporting other resolutions and thus THOSE are displayed as options.

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